Boston police have put out a warning about three young Chinese women who it is claimed walked up to an elderly woman who did not know them and then hypnotized the woman to go to her home and put US$160,000 cash into a plastic bag and hand it over to the women. At least...
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Okay, so some of you may have seen the video floating around of a Russian fellow touching the breasts of 1000 women . . . it’s a countdown as he works his way to 1000 women’s breasts he touches. The video is of Sam Nickel who did the bit as an election stunt during...
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Now, imagine you have one orgasm coming up over the pleasure horizon . . . now . . . imagine you can take that orgasm and you can slow it down . . . you don’t slow down the intensity, no, actually the pleasure of the experience intensifies as you slow it down, almost...
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You’ve heard it here before but with each new study, it seems to be that science is finding more and more evidence that it is so. Researchers suggest that the brain is the secret to female sexual satisfaction. Here’s an ABC News story on recent research into orgasm and the brain. video platform video...
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I know you’ve seen ‘em . . . in the bathroom at night, looking into the mirror and you notice the reflection looking back at you doesn’t seem right . . . there’s something off about that face, it’s staring at you . . . and the eyes aren’t your eyes, they’re the eyes...
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It looks like Jezebel has discovered the secret underground world of the anti-PUA, folks who’ve paid for seminars only to fail at picking up girls . . . an underground community of PUA-guru bashing and more: The goal of the Anti-Pickup-Artist Movement, as stated on its highly official title page, is to reveal “the...
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From the moment he steps onscreen in the 1960 thriller Psycho, Norman Bates gives audiences the goosebumps. The hotel manager-turned-serial killer just seems, well, off, maybe because he’s trying so hard to appear normal. Now a new study suggests that people who fail to appropriately imitate the mannerisms of others during social interactions can...
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“Imagine the original job interview. The first one ever, back on the prehistoric savannahs of eastern Africa. It wouldn’t have been exactly like a modern job interview, because early humans had no resumes or Linked-In or letters of recommendation to guide them. There was very little in the way of personal or professional reputation...
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People often describe creative thinking in the form of metaphors. We talk about "thinking outside the box," "putting two and two together," and "seeing both sides of the problem." But what if we could boost our creativity by taking these metaphors literally? We know our minds interact in all sorts of interesting ways with...
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William J. Bennet has written an intriguing piece on how he believes “hookup culture is degrading to women” but he misses the point on the nature of entertainment media and the portrayal of certain consenting adult activities. The culture of “consensual slavery” as portrayed in EL James’ “Fifty Shades of Gray” has very little...
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Human nature is one of those things that everybody talks about but no one can define precisely. Every time we fall in love, fight with our spouse, get upset about the influx of immigrants into our country, or go to church, we are, in part, behaving as a human animal with our own unique...
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Last Chance! H Y P N O T I C SOCIAL INFLUENCE Amazing Pre-Release Sale! http://briandavidphillips.net/2012/03/03/dvt35-social-influence/ It’s here and it’s on sale but time is running out! The comprehensive seminar on SOCIAL INFLUENCE is NOW on video! Social Influence Video Set H Y P N O T I C SOCIAL INFLUENCE http://briandavidphillips.net/2012/03/03/dvt35-social-influence/ The Pre-Release...
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Want to increase you influence? Throw in some social proof into the mix and watch your social influence mojo go up. In this brief lecture excerpt, Dr. Gino Dante Borges highlights how social proof plays a role in social influence/persuasion. This is from a speech Borges presented to executive mba students at St. Mary’s...
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So, the story has begun circulating again out there in interwebs land . . . sometimes with the names and locations sometimes as an anonymous tale . . . but while it reads like any other semi-inspirational thingie, this story has a difference, it’s actually true and not just manufactured to fit someone’s philosophical...
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Craig Zobel, director of the new film Compliance, was heckled after the screening of the film at Sundance as some folks found the portrayal of a young woman being sexually abused too powerfully misogynist and what some viewers found to be so extreme as to be unbelievable. However, Zobel’s story of a woman sexually...
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